2015-03-01 Namibia Health

Toronto Star   

Restrictions reinstated in Sierra Leone after new Ebola cases   
Toronto Star
FREETOWN, SIERRA LEONE—President Ernest Bai Koroma reinstated restrictions in Sierra Leone in response to the rise in confirmed cases of Ebola. Even his vice-president, Samuel Sam-Sumana, went into self-imposed 21-day quarantine on Saturday ...

2015-03-01 Namibia Science

The University News   

Awareness on causes of climate change vital   
Daily News
COMMUNITIES seem not to understand they are responsible for climate change even in places where deforestation is going on at an alarming rate. This was observed by participants at a two-day follow up workshop in Dar es Salaam on Low Carbon ...

2015-03-01 Namibia Sports

Daily News & Analysis   

World Cup 2015: England v Sri Lanka highlights   
Daily News & Analysis
4th over - First slip Joe Root is distracted by wicketkeeper Jos Buttler moving to take a catch off Lahiru Thirimanne and then pulling out, leaving Root to drop the ball with the batsman on three. SRI: 18-0. 5th over - Thirimanne hits James Anderson for a four ...

2015-03-01 Namibia Entertainment

Irish Independent   

There are shades of pain in celebrity life   
Irish Independent
Sarah Caden. Published 01/03/2015 | 02:30. 0 Comments; Share. Facebook · Twitter · Google · Email. LIFE IN THE PUBLIC GLARE: Melanie Griffith and Dakota Johnson at the Oscars Open Gallery 3 LIFE IN THE PUBLIC GLARE: Melanie Griffith and Dakota ...

2015-03-01 Namibia Technology

The Hoops News   

ANOTHER HACK! Uber breach exposed personal details of 50000 drivers   
The Hoops News
Uber has experienced a data breach that exposed at least 50,000 driver's personal details. The news broke late in the week that the company had encountered a data breach by an undisclosed third-party early in 2014. However, the news didn't break now ...

2015-03-01 Namibia Business

Firstpost   

Second hike in a month: Petrol up by Rs 3.18 per litre, diesel by Rs 3.09 per litre   
Firstpost
New Delhi: Petrol price was on Saturday hiked by Rs 3.18 per litre and diesel by Rs 3.09, the second increase in rates this month on rising international oil rates. The increase is effective from midnight tonight. Representational image. Reuters. A litre of petrol ...

2015-03-01 Namibia World

NDTV   

Death Threats and Late Night Dinner Before Russia's Boris Nemtsov was Shot ...   
NDTV
Moscow: It was near closing time on Friday at the upscale Bosco restaurant that looks out onto the illuminated red-brick walls of Moscow's Kremlin. Boris Nemtsov and his young, dark-haired girlfriend were finishing dinner. A political reformer who had fallen ...

2015-03-01 Namibia Africa

MiamiHerald.com   

Zimbabwe needs fresh leadership   
The Zimbabwe Standard
VICTORIA FALLS starts returning to normal today after the hoopla associated with President Robert Mugabe's 91st birthday that attracted thousands of people to the resort town. Opinion with Chipo Masara. Mugabe, who ate cake while his country is burning, ...

2015-03-01 Namibia Namibia

Times LIVE   

Mass land applications peaceful   
Times LIVE
Following the call of youth activist Job Amupanda, young Namibians formed long queues in most towns and at the coastal town of Swakopmund, over 3,000 applications were handed in by 10am. File photo. Image by: Google Maps ...

2015-02-28 Namibia Health

Telegraph.co.uk   

Distinct stages to chronic fatigue syndrome identified   
BBC News
Distinct changes in the immune systems of patients with ME or chronic fatigue syndrome have been found, say scientists. Increased levels of immune molecules called cytokines were found in people during the early stages of the disease, a Columbia ...

2015-02-28 Namibia Science

Firstpost   

U.N. Climate Chief Quickly Resigns Amid Sexual Harassment Allegations   
TheBlaze.com
A United Nations climate chief who stepped down from his position this week after allegations of sexual harassment will not be allowed to leave India or enter his office under an interim bail order issued by an Indian court, the BBC reported. Rajendra Pachauri ...

2015-02-28 Namibia Sports

The Hindu   

Cricket World Cup live updates: Black Caps bowlers destroy Australia and will ...   
TVNZ
Welcome to onenews.co.nz's LIVE coverage from sunny Auckland where the Black Caps are hosting Australia in an epic Cricket World Cup pool match. 32.2 overs: Australia 151 all out!! Corey Anderson gets the final wicket with just his second ball of his first ...

2015-02-28 Namibia Entertainment

The Inquisitr   

Christian Grey Reportedly Won't Be Played By Anyone But Jamie Dornan   
The Inquisitr
Christian Grey has become a household name since the Fifty Shades Of Grey series was released, and now that the books have been adapted for the silver screen, that name is being thrown about more than ever. Before the film's stars were cast, Sons Of ...

2015-02-28 Namibia Technology

Slate Magazine (blog)   

Post-Adware Disaster, Lenovo Is Trying to Clean Up Its Act   
Slate Magazine (blog)
So far, Lenovo hasn't had the best 2015. After preinstalling pernicious adware from a company called Superfish on many of its laptops, the company experienced necessary backlash from concerned customers and the security community. Now it's trying to ...

2015-02-28 Namibia Business

Irish Examiner   

Greece running out of options   
Irish Examiner
Greece is running out of options to fund itself despite a four-month bailout extension, raising pressure on Athens to quickly implement reforms it has vocally opposed or default on debt repayments in a matter of weeks. Eurozone and IMF creditors gave Greece ...

2015-02-28 Namibia World

CBS News   

Killing leaves Putin critics in despair   
Financial Times
Opponents of Russian President Vladimir Putin were in shock, anger and despair early on Saturday after veteran liberal politician Boris Nemtsov was shot dead in central Moscow shortly after midnight, the most prominent opposition leader to be killed in the ...

2015-02-28 Namibia Africa

Leadership Newspapers   

14m PVCs Yet To Be Collected – INEC   
Leadership Newspapers
Ahead of the 2015 general elections, a total of 14,505,729 Permanent Voter Cards (PVC) are yet to be distributed, latest data from the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) revealed yesterday. By the recent data released by the electoral ...

2015-02-28 Namibia Namibia

Times LIVE   

Land Application Numbers Escalate   
AllAfrica.com
As mass land applications, under the Affirmative Repositioning action, happen countrywide more landless Namibians continue to submit their applications for land in their respective towns and rejecting Swapo's threats of suspending members who would ...

2015-02-27 Namibia Health

9news.com.au   

Meet the Italian doctor who wants to perform human head transplants   
9news.com.au
An Italian doctor says human head transplants can be completed within two years, but acknowledges the profound ethical issues such an operation would entail. Dr Sergio Canavero, from the Turin Advanced Neuromodulation Group, has dedicated much of ...

2015-02-27 Namibia Science

Oil Slicks - a Common Occurrence in Namibia   
AllAfrica.com
SHIPS dumping waste oil at sea is a global problem and Namibia is a hotspot. A thousand kilometres of desolate coast line and a 300 kilometre wide Economic Exclusion Zone with no surveillance is the ideal scenario for illegal dumping. Studies estimate half ...

2015-02-27 Namibia Sports

Victor Harbor Times   

The Big Picture competition: Readers' top travel photos, February 28, 2015   
Victor Harbor Times
I had the chance to visit Namibia from South Africa. A four wheel drive, up, over and down immense sand dunes was both scary and exciting. This picture of two people in the dunes helps one realise both how big the dunes are, as well as their proximity of the ...

2015-02-27 Namibia Entertainment

OCRegister   

Medzerian: From 'Grey' to 'Selma,' readers sound off   
OCRegister
Jamie Dornan stars as pensive billionaire Christian Grey in “Fifty Shades of Grey.” , CHUCK ZLOTNICK, UNIVERSAL STUDIOS AND FOCUS FEATURES. I hadn't planned on writing about movies two weeks in a row (actually, three now). But I really had no ...

2015-02-27 Namibia Technology

Fortune   

Lizard Squad strikes again: Lenovo's website hacked and defaced   
Firstpost
China's Lenovo Group Ltd website was hacked, the company said on Wednesday, days after the US government advised Lenovo customers to remove a pre-installed virus-like software, “Superfish“, on laptops that makes the devices more vulnerable to ...

2015-02-27 Namibia Business

Oil Slicks - a Common Occurrence in Namibia   
AllAfrica.com
SHIPS dumping waste oil at sea is a global problem and Namibia is a hotspot. A thousand kilometres of desolate coast line and a 300 kilometre wide Economic Exclusion Zone with no surveillance is the ideal scenario for illegal dumping. Studies estimate half ...

2015-02-27 Namibia World

New York Post   

It's the ideology, stupid   
New York Post
We're talking about the sinister masked man who appears in ISIS videos of hostage beheadings — and who beheaded some of the victims himself. This week the man behind the mask was revealed to be a British national, Muhammad Emwazi. Contrary to the ...

2015-02-27 Namibia Africa

TODAYonline   

hold-Lesotho prepares for early vote in bid to ease political crisis   
Daily Mail
MASERU, Feb 27 (Reuters) - Feuding parties in Lesotho's ruling coalition will face off on Saturday in early national elections staged in a bid to restore stability six months after an attempted coup. The vote is being held around two years ahead of schedule ...

2015-02-27 Namibia Namibia

News24   

Namibia media may be essential service   
News24
Windhoek - Namibia's media sector will undergo a review to see if it is an essential service, a special committee told a public hearing on Thursday. "There was an application by the national broadcaster Namibia Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) in December ...

2015-02-26 Namibia Health

The National Business Review (subscription)   

Two children being tested for Ebola in Melbourne   
The National Business Review (subscription)
Free audio stream, including stories that are padlocked on our site. Listen on any device, anywhere. Updated twice daily. The audio stream takes several seconds to start on Android devices. Launch Radio player. Two children under 10 years of age are being ...

2015-02-26 Namibia Science

Mashable   

Google AI teaches itself to destroy human opponents at 'Space Invaders'   
Mashable
Computers already have bested human champions in Jeopardy! and chess, but artificial intelligence now has mastered an entirely new level: Space Invaders. Google scientists have cooked up software that can do better than humans on dozens of Atari video ...

2015-02-26 Namibia Sports

Livemint   

Sri Lanka wins toss, bats 1st vs Bangladesh in World Cup   
New Zealand Herald
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) " Sri Lanka captain Angelo Mathews won the toss and elected to bat first Thursday in its Cricket World Cup Pool A match against Bangladesh at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. Sri Lanka included Dinesh Chandimal in the only ...

2015-02-26 Namibia Entertainment

MiamiHerald.com   

New Gucci designer debuts as Milan celebrates youth   
The Denver Post
MILAN (AP) — Fashion is always about renewal, but in this round of Milan Fashion Week it's not just the collections that are getting a fresher-upper but, it seems, much of the Italian fashion system. Gucci's new designer Alessandro Michele, a brand insider ...

2015-02-26 Namibia Technology

IBNLive   

Lizard Squad hacking group defaces Lenovo website with goofy webcam selfies ...   
IBNLive
New Delhi: After the SuperFish controversy, Lenovo again got into trouble when hackers turned its official website into a teen's selfie slideshow. Lizard Squad, which is a hacking group, took over Lenovo's homepage and posted images of a teen with a funny ...

2015-02-26 Namibia Business

Proactive Investors UK   

Eco (Atlantic) Oil & Gas has $10.3 mln in cash to advance its petroleum assets   
Proactive Investors Australia
Eco (Atlantic) Oil & Gas (CVE:EOG) (NSX:EOG) outlined in an update Wednesday the progress made for the company during the final three months of 2014, and said that its strong balance sheet will allow it to advance its assets in Namibia and Ghana in 2015 ...

2015-02-26 Namibia World

Los Angeles Times   

Apple ordered to pay $533 million in iTunes patent lawsuit   
Los Angeles Times
The bitter patent wars have flared again, and this time, Apple Inc. emerged the loser. The world's most valuable company was ordered by a federal jury to pay $532.9 million to Smartflash, a tiny Texas company that alleged that Apple willfully infringed on its ...

2015-02-26 Namibia Africa

Wall Street Journal   

Nigerian Police Search for Kidnapped American Missionary   
Wall Street Journal
Nigerian police said Wednesday they are searching for an American missionary kidnapped from a school compound in the central part of the country. Officials from the Free Methodist Church said they received word Monday that Phyllis Sortor, a reverend with ...

2015-02-26 Namibia Namibia

New Era   

Agriculture produce hub pips hospital to land   
New Era
WINDHOEK – Plans to construct a district hospital in Katutura's Samora Machel Constituency have been put on ice after the construction of a fresh produce hub on the same site took up much of the available land. The Windhoek Municipality had availed land ...

2015-02-25 Namibia Health

The Guardian   

UK is the first country to legalise triple-DNA babies   
Irish Examiner
The UK has become the first country in the world to legalise the creation of IVF babies using DNA from three people. The first baby conceived after mitochondrial donation techniques may be born as early as next year after peers in the House of Lords voted ...

2015-02-25 Namibia Science

New York Times   

Don't malign rats for the Black Death - the gerbils were to blame   
New Zealand Herald
Who, me? Researchers say gerbils, not rats, may have been to blame for the Black Death in Europe. Photo / Thinkstock. The Black Death has always been bad publicity for rats, with the rodent widely blamed for killing millions of people across Europe by ...

2015-02-25 Namibia Sports

Times LIVE   

Barcelona defend Messi´s penalty miss   
Sport LIVE
Both Luis Enrique and Luis Suarez defended Lionel Messi after the Barcelona striker missed a penalty against Manchester City. Barcelona coach Luis Enrique and striker Luis Suarez brushed off Lionel Messi's penalty miss on Tuesday, claiming the Catalan ...

2015-02-25 Namibia Entertainment

Fox News   

Will Johnston: Fifty Shades of Tauranga   
New Zealand Herald
I saw Fifty Shades of Grey over the weekend. This is not a review. This is what went through my head while I sat there, romantically inserting popcorn... in to my... unshaven... desperate for more... face. Romance writing, check. Haha! I found myself trying to ...

2015-02-25 Namibia Technology

IBNLive   

Pebble Time smartwatch raises more than $1 million in less than an hour of ...   
IBNLive
New Delhi: Pebble Time, the latest smartwatch by Pebble Technology, garnered more than a million dollars on project-funding website Kickstarter within an hour of getting listed. The company announced its latest smartwatch on February 24 and through a ...

2015-02-25 Namibia Business

Kansas City Star   

Asia: Stocks mostly higher on Fed comments, Greek reforms   
THE BUSINESS TIMES
[TOKYO] Asian stocks broadly rose Wednesday after US Federal Reserve chief Janet Yellen damped speculation of a rate hike before summer, and as eurozone finance ministers backed Greek reforms critical to avoiding a disastrous default. The regional ...

2015-02-25 Namibia World

Reuters   

Islamic State in Syria abducts at least 150 Christians   
Reuters Canada
AMMAN (Reuters) - Islamic State militants have abducted at least 150 people from Assyrian Christian villages in northeastern Syria they had raided, Christian Syrian activists said on Tuesday. A Syrian Christian group representing several NGOs inside and ...

2015-02-25 Namibia Africa

Ghana News Agency   

Alhaji Dawood Mohammed   
Ghana News Agency
Accra, Feb 24, GNA – The State on Tuesday filed a nolle prosequi on notice at an Accra Circuit Court presided over by Mr Francis Obiri to drop the charges against Alhaji Dawood Mohammed, a businessman. It was upon the notice to the court that the judge ...

2015-02-25 Namibia Namibia

2015-02-24 Namibia Health

Sydney Morning Herald   

Eating peanuts early could prevent allergy, study shows   
Sydney Morning Herald
Miami: A study has found that, contrary to previous advice, feeding foods containing peanuts to babies before 11 months of age may help prevent allergies, echoing some of the findings of Australian researchers. The findings in the New England Journal of ...

2015-02-24 Namibia Science

New Era   

Public servants urged to pull their weight   
New Era
SWAKOPMUND – Public and civil servants should not only sit in offices nor should they attend workshops for the mere sake of attending them, but must gear their efforts towards service delivery, Deputy Prime Minister, Marco Hausiku, has said. The outgoing ...

2015-02-24 Namibia Sports

Times LIVE   

Barcelona ignore crisis talk as they aim to take down City again   
Herald Scotland
'BARCELONA IN CRISIS...' began a headline in an English national news website on Sunday morning reporting on the club's Nou Camp defeat to Malaga the previous night. 'BARCELONA IN CRISIS...' began a headline in an English national news website ...

2015-02-24 Namibia Entertainment

Kazenambo Fights for Botswana Descendants   
New Era
Swapo member of parliament Kazenambo Kazenambo has called on government to take a serious look into all complexities surrounding the citizenship status of returnees of Namibian origin from Botswana. "It is hypocrisy of the highest order on our part that ...

2015-02-24 Namibia Technology

Wired   

Google Guns for Apple in Mobile Payments Race   
New York Times (blog)
Technology companies have spent years trying to persuade people to put away their credit cards and pay with mobile phones instead, but consumers have mostly shrugged. Now, with the release of Apple's Apple Pay application, the race to replace credit ...

2015-02-24 Namibia Business

Wall Street Journal   

US investigating big banks on possible precious-metal price rigging - WSJ   
Reuters
Feb 23 (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Justice and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission are investigating at least 10 major banks for a possible rigging of precious-metals markets, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people close to the inquiries ...

2015-02-24 Namibia World

Zee News   

Top UK officials Jack Straw, Malcolm Rifkind exposed in sting, deny 'cash for ...   
Zee News
London: Former British foreign secretaries Jack Straw and Sir Malcolm Rifkind on Monday sought to defend themselves after they fell for a sting laid by journalists and were caught on tape offering their services to private firms in return for cash. While Jack ...

2015-02-24 Namibia Africa

UN News Centre   

Technology boost for UN peacekeepers 'essential' in rapidly evolving, complex ...   
UN News Centre
23 February 2015 – From the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to the Central African Republic (CAR), United Nations' peacekeeping missions must make greater use of technological advances in order to better confront the dynamic challenges of the ...

2015-02-24 Namibia Namibia

News24   

Swapo warns against land mass action   
News24
Windhoek - The ruling Swapo party has warned that planned youth mass action this week - by applying for plots for housing - might disrupt peace and stability in Namibia. "The position of the Swapo Party on this issue is that these efforts to disrupt peace and ...